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31 ,t m led of ad- ate and COS lir.e with !ry, ,itii 'or- )IXle :us, Pr } ' by of at rent nt3. lore gift , brce tate, here lock, cient a tifili P rin- Lord Lord C:olo : Pre• hitt: rfiel° o riOntio fig >igbYt town, ei Ace, iscol. • more, 1, and NAVAL, NEW -I motn-r,.Aratt, t.—Arrived the ship Cum ocri "d, PARKER, from Martinique, laden with En o Or and coffee, bound to London, put in here by 'ltchitiary winds ; the Matilda extra ship, Captain Gs, fro m B enga l ; t h e F r i en d s, L E G ROS, f rom the Progress, GILLEBRAND 5 Hope, 1), 48, and Two Brothers, COWLING, from London. j O RTSMOUTH, APRIL I2.—Dropt down to Saint "us his Majesty's ship Horatio, with the out cl bound Indiainen, and will sail in the morn.. 41 g. told's Majesty's ship Avenger is appointed convoy Newfoundland. came in his Majesty's ship -Linnet from a cruize. Went out of Harbour his Majesty's ship Escort, 44(1 is aplointed convoy to Guernsey and Jersey. A l'rived the George, COCKBURN ; and Ann, FRB-. fr Eili cK, from Sunderland ; Hibernia, f °4l Dun garven ; U n i on , B ORROW , f rom 'Dept :4lf Indu s t r y, P EARCY , f rom N ort h Y armout h; 44 , MONDAY, from London. 4 LMOUTII, APRIL 10.—Arrived the Princess C har lotte , packet, Capt. KERR, from Lisbon, wi:h a in nine days; his Majesty's ship Humber, th a C , ilvoy f or the Downs; and his Majesty's a bi ll Leveret from a cruize. I ''NZANC'S, APRIL to.—Arrived the Redpole sloop of , ar, with dispatches from Lisbon. • • --- • 'IvStiEERNT-! s, APRIL it .—His Majesty's ships 941 Pheri and 11 enzesis were paid up to six months; , His Majesty' s brig Martial has made the signa 4 0t a convoy to Heligoland. I\l ent out of harbour, and anchored at the Little 01. his Majesty '-t brig Cruizer. --RAM QUAY, APRIL 11.—AI - rived and sailed 14 Riertnor war. ti ll. "' East Essex I\l received their route last ai d the first d bijou marched this morning The T.,i:d Regirpcnt of Buffs remain "le barracks. A Pro c l amat i on , s i gne d by th e Se cre ta r y o f St a t e , t heistined yesterday, offering a reward of 5001. for s apprehension of the person who fired at Mr. rN II PHurr COWEL, Ensign of the Coldstream 'nlards The payer states, that Mr. COWEL was hi e from Olt Palace-yard, Westn'.inster, to ' t l e liaise Guards, ;,bout twelve o'cl , )ck on Monday h ' i ght last, wh, , n, opposite St. Margaret's Church, heard the report °fa gun or pistol, and saW the at that moment lie It his hat go from his shall; and on finding it, he found it perforated by O,cconnts have been received of the safe arrival at ti c : B 'cm of the 3d battalion ( , :r Colonel Hves) of Ti e Scot c h Royals, and of the 13th Light Dragoons. Wese two corps were lo reieve . the tst or Royal Dragoons and the 74th Highlanders, who tt ,"t to march from Lisbon .to join the army in qe,,,, field. 411 e private accounti from Lisbon give the most rat'f • Prig statements of the condition of our army, , r ich now bids defiance to all the enemy's efforts. ( 1' letter received by a respectable house in the City, :,e3 the 26th ult. says—" We entertain no fears the F renc h a t pr es e n t. They a r e i n a starving; t t ° ndttion • their sick amount to twenty-four thou-. They are daily deserting and coming into i.ts bon, almost naked. The Spaniards have driven .4e cattl e , b ur i e d t he corn, and burnt the straw.— q u i', army is on the advance.—Head-quarters at ilarda." E ast India Court of Directors was held at the 'ast India House, when the ne , .cly elected Directors t ook the oaths and their seats. WIA• ASLETT and JACOB BOSANQUE T. , vv ' ,era unanimously chosen Chairman and Deputy ‘ . hairrnan for the year ensuing. b THEATRE.--A pand and beautiful new whet was last night brought forward at this place, entitled Psyche. It is, we understand, nearly a ac-simile of the Ballet with th e s a me t i t le, th a t h as 3 Cen highly popular at Paris. The parts of Cupid a nd Zephyr were sustained by DES HAYES arid k v ESTItI S with a dmi ra ble skill, a n d t h e M anager h as d rought forward the piece itself in a very beautiful 41 '`l magnificent style. I Prid a y a fire broke out at the mansion of Glass l'"11)ton; at Asiley, Worcestershire, the resid e n ce t, t ; t he Rev. J. DENHAM COOKES, which destroyed a ''ut sup e rb edifice. The pictures, a valuable organ, 'ld the wines, were the only property saved. SNIITHFIELD WARKET, Aritzt 13. This day's Market had a considerable supply of "IfTerent kinds of Cattle ; Mutton and Veal are a q arer th an our l ast report ; B ee f i s c h eaper; Pork u PPerts last price; and the trade for the most part kas somewhat ilat.—The sales in the Hay Market i"re gifting ; Hay, Straw, and Clov e r, o btain e d 4 t plices,—Th e f o ll ow i ng p r i ces an d num b ers ar e ,correct statement : To sink the oird per stone of 81b. Beef 45. • cd. to ss. 411. Nlutton 45. ad. to ss. 6d. Veal cs. to 7s. 6d. Pork ss. 4d. to 7s. od. Lamb 6s. od. to 75.6 d. Beasts i 050.— Sheep 27oo.—Calies :So. —Pigs 320. SMITHFIELD HAYMARKET. %,,HaY I. ss. od. to 61. tos. od. Straw Al. 4S . o d. to 31. cos. C lOV:tr 61. JOS. od. to 71. tes. CORN EXCHANGE, APRIL. 13.—This day the sup. Plies of Whe a t are cons id era bl e , most ly t hi s wee k' s f oreign arrivals, of about 20,000 quarters, sales at s(3ii)ewhat less; Barley with Malt' likewise ; new l ick Beans 355. to 40s. per quarter; in Oats and tier articles little variation, as per currency an-, nex,d , 11e4 ,t - 743 a ,es a loos' Tick Beans (old) 483 a 533 '" ll 4' N • loss a loBs Oats zis a z4s a 2.6 s • I - - - . 4ry.. a sa Poland ditto . 286 a 3zs od ,• • •• SoS 4 4( Potatoe ditto -36 s a—s od - ois a is Rape Secd - - 47 1 a ill ;11te c tos a bSs ' Fine Hour . 85s a oos, - 4:s a 4Ss *Seconds - • 1105 ais s t , . •I(;) sos ii fits ~, • IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF PEERS, THURSDAY, APRIL 12. The Duke of PORTLAND took the oaths and his seat. Johnson from the Office of the Chief Se cretary of State for Ireland-, presented a report of the state of the prisdns in that Kingdom.—Ordered to lie on the table. Some private ,Bills were brought up from the Commons, and read a first time. FOREIGN TROOPS. Lord KING, pursuant to notice, moved the Order of the Day to submit a motion to .their Lordships re specting the Maintenance of Foreign Troops in this Country. If any apology were to be thought neees sary fur his offering such a motion to the House, that apology might be found in the wording and pro visions of the Bill which had been passed a few years ago, sanalioning the introduEtion of such troops into these.- kingdoms. The circumstances of which he •I should have to . complain were principally these of late years it seems to be the intention of Gmern;. metif to render permanent that which had been • permitted only for temporal and special purposes.— Every day . seemed to relax the principle upon which the introduction of foreign Troops was allowed ; and not only to relax that principle respecting the -- 1 amount of the foreign force so introduced, but to - betray in many instances an undue partiality in fa vour of these foreigners. To th ese points chiefly was he desirous to -direct the attenti.ai of their. Lordships. And first, he begged their Lordships to recollect, that foreign. troops were fist admitted into this country in pursuance of the - At of the 29th of George 11. But they would at the same time recol led; that then they were introduced for - a special purpose, for a limied service, viz, as a corps to- serve in America. Ever since that period the spirit and letter of the law in this respeet seemed gradually to be departed from, alt Sough_ in all these departures the spirit and letter of the law were still unequi vocally against the adoption of such a prac ice in geaeral cases. It was only within these last ten years, that .the law which limited the ex tent of the foreign force, and the objects and manner for which it was to be applied in these king-. Toms, seemed •in a great measure to be overlooked. The Noble Loid then adverted to the different periods at which foreign troops had been introduced into this country, and to the ctrcumstances under which their introduction has been allowed ; and argued from thence, that their number was not only circumscribed, but that the clause in the Biil, passed in 1804, a Bill, which,by the bye, had not, notwith standing its extreme importance, been introduced till the middle of July, a period in th e Session when it was impossible it should undergo a full And minute discussion, was far from giving an unequivocal sane .tion to such a pradice, much less of appointing :foreign Officers on the Staff, or to the command of iiistricla is these kingdoms. Nevertheless it would noN appear that the limitation of foreign iro >ps to the amount of ten thousand men, has of late. been exceeded, and that foreign officers had been placed on the Stattand had been even put in - the conunand of districts where they not only had the foreign troips under their orders, but also the national tr,ops, and even the Militia. This he could not help considering as incompatible with the spirit of the At of Settle ment, as coptradiCiory to the, preamble and tenor of the Militia Acts. But it was- not only to this violation . of the spirit of the Constitution that he had to object, but to the instances of undue partia lity which he had observed in favour of the foreign corps. In looking over the estimates of the year, he found that the amount of the estimates for fo- reign corps, particularly the cavalry, exceeded the ratio of ,the estimate for the national_ troops as 47 • tb 44. The same might be said respecting the-esti , mate of the recruiting service for these corps. But the partiality in favour of the Officers was more marked. Many of them were on the Staff, and . though on the Staff continued to enjoy their full pay, while if a native officer on half pay was ap pointed to the Staff, he must forego his half pay. The foreign Generals had besides not only the com mand of districts, but it this partiality in their fa vour was to be followed up, he saw no impediment in the present practice to making one of them Com mander in Chief ; for the only impediment would be, that he was a Catholic, which impediment had been removed by the act of 1804, which made that objection attach only to a native Catholic. Now, how inconsistent was this partiality with the general • tenour of the provisions of the Bill, since they al most all provided that the foreign Officers should serve in, and b~ restricted to the foreign corps, on the ground that they were best acquainted with the language, the manners and the customs of the troops whom they were destined to command. There was another strong consideration that should not be lost sight of, and that was, that at present there was no danger of an immediate invasion, which hitherto had been the great argument for employing foreign troops; but more particularly the present state of the countries from which these foreign recruits were chiefly drawn. These countries, Hanover and West phalia, were now under the dominion of the enemy, and was it to to believed that men drawn from those parts were to lose any attachment to their native soil, and ail recollection of those whom they left in it, under the controul and at the mercy of the enemy of the country ? These reasons were powerful with him for not countenancing the permanent employ ment of foreign troops, and more especially for de . .precating the intrusting of the command of distribts ' ' to foreign Generals. With that view he should now Move a few resolutions that would mark the 'spirit and the'occasions in and on which the employ . ment of foreign troops should be allowed." The Earl of LIVERPOOL had but a few observe ' tions to make in reply to the speech of the Noble Cord. The praelice of introducing foreign troops had more or lesF prevailed for the four last years, but on no occasion had it been admitted without the sanction of the Legislature. So far it might be . said to be recognised by the laws, and so far might ' the constitutionality of the pra&ice be said to be as j certained. It was true that the number of such troops to be introduced was limited to ten thousand, nor was that number exceeded till the year 1,806, when a Bill passed admitting a force of that descrip- L titin to the amount of about sixteen thousand, and them the circumstances of the case seemed to yistify the departure from former praaiee. At , to the par tialities complained of by the Noble Lord, there would be no foundation whatever for such a sup- , position if the mater was properly inquired into. The difference in estimate alluded to by the Noble Lord ?rose merely from a difference in the mode of preparing the Estimates - for England and . Ireland. As to any other partiality, he could not see the least colour to countenance the supposition. Of 18,000 or 19,000 foreign troops at present in the pay of Great Britain, not 5000 of them were serving in this Country—they were almost all employed on foreign servie, and had always been engaged in the most toilsome and perilous service, in which they had uni formly distinguished themselves. Would it. be fair • therefore to bar the road to preferment to the offs. • cers who commanded such men, and whose talents and services had given them a just claim to every promotion and distiction they could aspire to ? He • was at a loss therefore to see the• necessity of the Noble Lord's motion, and the best mode in his opi nion to get rid of it, was to move that the other Orders of the Day be now read. Earl RossLYN could not omit the present oppor tunity of bearing testimony to the uniform good condua of the foreign corps on every occasion in which he had the honour of serving with them. Their valour and zeal might be estimated from the degree in which they had suffered iu all the - Batons in which they were engaged, among others, in the glorious battle of Talavera, He agreed with the Noble Earl who preceded him, as to the cause of the apparent, higher estimate for the foreign. than for. the national troops ; but that arose merely from the difference between the mode of making up these estimates in Ireland and England. As to the expellees of the recruiting service, if they were ac curately investigateJ, he was sure the recruiting of the foreign corps was not so expensive as that of the national corps. They did not exceed on an average !M. or ill. per man ; and even in that cal culation, the expence attending their conveyance to this country was included. He did not howeVer agree as to the constitutionality of the . praaice of admitting foreign troops, laid down by the Noble Earl. Without pretending to any nice constitu tional knowledge, the tendency of his mind was to adhere to the policy pointed out by the COnstitu- • • lion, which in. points of such • importance was : not to be expressed in doubtful and ambiguous terms. • It was not usual,' as iusinaated by the Noble Lord who brought forward the motion, for foreign Gene . rals to have the command of our national troops. They generally had only the command of their own brigades, which upon consideration would be found to be necessary and proper. It was only occa-, sionally, - and that but for a short time, that they could have the command of any of our national troops. • , Lord LIVERPOOL, in explanation, observed, that when he talked of the constitutionality of thoprac ' tice of admitting foreign troops, he considered it only as an exception from the general principle of the Constitutiob, observing however that the exception had been recognised -and sanctioned by ditfereot Acts of Parliarnnt. Lord f_';!t ENVI LLE said that the explmatkm just g i ven b y t h e N o ble Seerz!tary of State, made it un necessary for him to offer more t! an afe words on the pr sent quesCon.—He must again repr:ibate • the practice so fit:yet:lft rest a;ed to by , Musters of referring to the measures of others, and et.di!a vouring to shift the blame of their own C:tithla on the shoulders o; their pre !eCessors.in •.)11i;;e: The Noble Earl •had advettt,cl to a Bill passed in 1801; when he had the honour, of being one of his M. , ,- jes'y's advisers. That Bill was passed only at;ol., a week after he had entered into of ice, and tieder what circumstances ? A rash expedition had been sent to the Elbe, among the consequences of which • was, that a large addition had been made to the Ha noverian troops employed in that service. That addition arose from the necessity a numbfr of the inhabitants of Hanover •were-under of escaping from their n s ative country to avoid the resentment they must experience from the enemy for their. adher ence to their legitimate Sovereign. We' encourage their flocking to our standard, and if an asylum. had not been opened to them, what would become rt.f the national honour and good faith. The Bill re- . ferred to was,. therefore, passed not as a matter of choice, but of compulsion, and merely as the neces sary consequence of the rash expedition in which he had no part, but which, on the contrary, he wholly disapproved. • The question was then put on Lord Liverpool's amendment, and agreed to without 'a division. The other Orders of the Day being read accord ingly, Lord GRENVILLE proposed, when the Revenue Penalty Bill came, under consideration, that instead of •a Selett Committee, the Committee to whom the Bill as referred should be open to all such Peers as had taken their places this Session.—Ordered. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. THURSDAY, APRIL 12. On the motion of Sir W. CURTIS, the second reading of the BlackfriarS Toll Bill was postponed to Tuesday. A Person from the Office of the Chief Secretary for Ireland presented an account of the compensa tions granted to Custom-House Officers in Ire land, for fees abolished.—Ordered to lie on the table. lroses • 1):0- • over. L;lsoni York,. • tnith iake- ditao, .:. K. I • ugiaS, iid C• eerier Z.N • i ~ W. ifther, w, S. grave, it f her, -latcll anted torris. )y th: r-Ge- :ment sionet ary to point- ean. Am- fry of SMITHFIELD MARKET. Sif_C. PRICE moved the second reading of the Smithfield Market Bill. He stated the long consi. deration which the inconveniences of the preset-a . Market had•endergone•by the Corporation of Lon. don, who had at length decided tha; a removal was indispensable, and had. seleaed a situation for the new Market, which, under all the ,circutpstaOces of the case, appeared to them to he the least ob jeCtibnable. If any clause could be introduced by which the neighbourhood of the intended new Mar ket could be benefited, the Corporation would by happy to avail themselves of it. Mr. Alderman COMBE opposed the Bill as violnt— ing the Charter of London, and calculated to in jure a number of inhabitants. He moved as an amendment, that the Bill be read a second time this day six months.- Mr. Rose supported the Bill. The extension of the Market had been rendered indispensable, as many I ,ersons were prevented from sending their eatile thither and it could not be sufficiently extended on >.~.~... the spot upon which it was now held, without incurring an expellee too enormous to be thougll of. Mr. MARTIN contended, that although .it might be cie-ir . ,ble to remove the Market, it by no to a! follotced that it ought to be removed to,.the plate fixed upon. In his minion, a more c. -, nvenient si tuation-might be found very near the present Miit'ket. the .throwing out of the last Bill many new houses had ' , een ereoed on the spot to which t it was now proposed to remove the Market ; and, to r;le Owners of these it would be difficult to aTi6cl,l : : compensation. It would be impossible to prc» vent the cattle from being driven through cert4in streets, whatever prohibitory penalties the Bill contain. • • Mr. WILBERFORCE supported the Bill.. He de nied that it would be itnpo , ,siblc to prevent tt i ., ? ,beasts from beitig driven through any streets fro.o which it wa< desirable to keep !hem. Adverting • o the former proposal of erecting Penitentiary Housts, he observed that the public had been deprived of the advantages which expected from th a t v cry ingenious plan by an argument similar to that of his Learned Friend, namely, that some otherspot might he discovered f" ,, r their ere'lion instead , of that originally suggested. This watt a pubic ohjod,. and one of the utmost importance. The injury which the cattle sustained from the crowded ~tare of the Market, had induced many great breeders not to send their cattle to Smitbfi id any longer. The sufferings of the animals themselves atst - i ought to be asubjeet of serious inducement to a re .oval of the cause. Mr. Lra KECK remarked, that he himself every year sustained grievobs lo,ses from tne state of Smithfield Market. Among the numerous obje&ions to it were the -Avant of room, and Market being a thoroughfare, .by -the bass were frequently much injured. It was neceis:,ry to ere& a Market which should cotnprize twelve acres, and that was not possible to be done in the immediate neighbourhood of Smithfield. Mr. SIMEON opposed the Bill, and expatiated en the evils which would result from the establishment of a Market on the projected site. Mr. JACOB would vote for the Bill going into a Committee, in the hope that the evils 'which his Hon. Friend near hiin had deprecated, might be corrected. Sir J. SHAW argued that sufficient ground might be obtained for the evension of the present Mar ket, without a removal. Both the inhabitants of the neighbourhood of the present Market, and the inhabitant of the place to which it was propose) to be removed, as also . the butchers of the M etro p o li s, were averse fi oin the removal. The Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital were .also of opinion that the interests of the Hospital would suffer by the removal: Mr. W. SMITH contended, that the Bill ought to go into a Committee, in which a clause mighir be introduced to obviate the evils apprehended.. M:. 11. IlitowNs expressed hiniseif in filv,ur of the removal. The House then divided. • For the amendment Agatust it Majority -;7 The rci is consquen tly Mr. D. GIDDY obtaithxl leave to hang in a 13ill to regulate th- mode of. allowing aecowns of Overseers. of the Pour .by Justices of the Pe.iee. BOARD OF ORI)NANC.I. .Mr. CALCR4FT waived the motion for the expul .sion of Mr. Hunt till Monday, as the House was • not yet in possession of some necessary letters• shy l therefore confine - himselito a resolution re spesting the sccuritic3. It appeared, that the M.ts- E ter-General of the Board of Ordnance had been guilty of a great breach of duty, by which. the • try would lose 10,0001. in not requiring from Mr.. Hunt, on his entetinrg on his second Treasurership the securities prescribed by the in,trudions of Charle3 A letter from the Secretary of the Ordnance had been written to Mr. Hunt on the subjed, but. no answer had been received., nor did it appear that any further step had been taken on the subject. He . conceived that this was an indefensible breach of duty which the House could not pats over. He enumerated the Members of the Board of Ordnance, and contended that they had not inn( ing kind of b4siness, in pleading which they.niight find excuse for such a breach of duty. The first Resolutions that he intended to. propose were of fad ; the fast Reiolution was of censure. The_Hon. Gentleman then read his Resolutions, which were to the following Aired That it appears te i this House, that Joseph Hunt, Esq. a Member of the kiouse, has been twice Treasurer of :he . Board of Ordnance,',that'he was near OS months in office on. his first appointMent in 1803, before security was obtained from him ; and thit from his second appointment in 1807, it is not recorded in tfie,o rdnance Department that any security had been obtained from !ann. •' That it appeals to this House that a balance of 93„9z61. stands against the said jcseph Hunt, Esq. as late Treasurer of the Ordnance. • • " That it appears to this House that the Master- Generat of the Ordnance is directed in the original instructions of Charles 11. and on which he and the Board, are bound to. act, to take from the Treasurer of the Ordnance, on his entering upon office, such security as may, in their merit, he necessary, subjed to ' the approbation of the Treasury. " That it appears to this House that no security was takers on the second appointment of the said josepf. Hunt, L sq. ro the office of Treasurer of the Ordnance. " That it is the opinion of this House tilltthe Master. General:and Board of Ordnance have ge e n gu il t y of - a bread? , at their iiistrudions in neglecting to take security from the Isaid Joseph E.sq. and are respo n sibl e and ecosural , le for tins great omission of duty, which, front the statement of the balances of the said loseph Hunt, Esq. has actualls occasioned a loss to the Public of to,000l." ! Mr. A. COOPER could not think that the Board was responsible for the omission of their Secretary, ► who had been instrutited to write, and who had written aietter to Mr. Hunt, on his appointment to office requiring the necessary security, to which answer was returned—a neglect which had not been Ireported to the Board. The public businesS of such a Board could not be carried on if they were expedcd t to attend to all the details of their office. No Gene tral charge of neglect of duty, dishonesty, or ci,r roption had been brought against the 80, and he: therefore conceived that such a vote of eciisur‘i ought not to appear against them on the iouroak.. The Board lamented the loss which the Public Ina sustained on this occasion, and it wits his intention, 'a ith a view to prevent the recurrence ot. events, -to move for leave to bring in aßdl to vacat..., offices in future, unlesS security should be given the officers on their appoinittunt. , Mr. PONSOSBX was astonished that any opposition \